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From: Sven Bretfeld <sven.bretfeld@gmx.ch>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Why are RegExps never working?
Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2007 16:19:37 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87abpkolme.fsf@kamaloka.dhatu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <D225E1C5-9A45-4931-AB0C-6E54B2C9EE65@Web.DE> (Peter Dyballa's message of "Sun, 11 Nov 2007 15:47:52 +0100")


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Hi Peter

You're my savior again. Thanks.

Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE> writes:

> You mean: what *are* ?

I think it's still only one mistake.

> Everything between square brackets, i.e. in [], are alternatives, no |
> is needed.

> What you are trying to search and destroy, ahhem, replace are not line
> endings but line feeds inside the from expression. These are put  into
> the expression as C-q C-j. 

This works perfectly (of course). I will search in the info for the
difference between a line feed and an end of line, which is not clear
to me.

> The expression between [] won't look  like
> such, but I can give you some guarantee: it works! Definitely.
>
> And please read again what a "group" in regular expressions is! The ``
> [ \|$]´´ and the ``[0-9]´´ are bracket expressions, a faulty (for your
> purpose) and a working one. If you want to re-use parts of the  search
> expression you can use:
>
> 	\(pp\.\)[ ^J]\([0-9]\)  ->  \1~\2
>
> Line feed or SPC are converted to ~.

Sorry, wrong terminology. Yes, I'm usually using "groups" like that to
search and replace regexps.

Thank you very much

Sven

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Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-11-11 14:06 Why are RegExps never working? Sven Bretfeld
2007-11-11 14:47 ` Peter Dyballa
2007-11-11 15:19   ` Sven Bretfeld [this message]
2007-11-11 15:52     ` Peter Dyballa
2007-11-11 23:24       ` Sven Bretfeld
2007-11-12  9:39         ` Peter Dyballa
2007-11-12  9:53           ` Sven Bretfeld
     [not found]       ` <mailman.3307.1194823515.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-11-12  8:21         ` Harald Hanche-Olsen
2007-11-12  9:55           ` Sven Bretfeld
2007-11-12 10:15             ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-11-12 15:10               ` Drew Adams
2007-11-12 16:01                 ` Sven Bretfeld
     [not found]           ` <mailman.3326.1194861370.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-11-12 13:04             ` Richard G Riley
2007-11-12 18:54               ` Drew Adams
2007-11-13  8:55           ` Tim X
2007-11-13 13:54             ` Richard G Riley
     [not found]     ` <mailman.3268.1194797266.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-11-12 23:53       ` Giorgos Keramidas
2007-11-13 15:49         ` Peter Dyballa
2007-11-13 16:37           ` Giorgos Keramidas
2007-11-13 23:51             ` Sven Bretfeld
2007-11-14  9:55               ` Peter Dyballa
2007-11-14 17:52                 ` Sven Bretfeld
     [not found]             ` <mailman.3482.1194997914.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-11-14  3:13               ` Giorgos Keramidas
2007-11-14  9:22         ` Johan Bockgård
2007-11-16  5:15           ` Tim X
2007-11-16 10:17             ` Johan Bockgård
2007-11-11 15:21 ` Bastien
2007-11-11 14:38   ` Sven Bretfeld

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